Houston Pizza Venture powers more than 85 stores with renewables, including Papa John’s

By Kathie Zipp Houston Pizza Venture, one of the largest Papa John’s franchisees in the country, will now add solar to its 100-percent renewable energy purchase as part of a nine-year agreement with TXU Energy. The Houston-based company has been powering its more than 85 stores, which include Papa John’s, Genghis Grill, Firehouse Subs, and Sure Fire Tacos and Tortilla Grill locations, with 100-percent wind power since 2015. Beginning in 2018, solar power from the new Luminant Upton 2 Solar Power Plant in West Texas will also make up nearly a quarter of the restaurant company’s renewable energy mix.
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